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My Arm Is Stuck to a Tree
Web 2.0 is overwhelming: Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, Blip, Youtube: i am so confused!
Bus Tour: What is the theme??? Seinfield: a story about trying to find a story?
FYI: I am going campling tomorrow so no post tomorrow, assuming it does not snow tomorrow, like today!
Have a great weekend.
Scott
PS: Today I have 2 posts, see my best friend Mike describe the beating I took at Golden Tee yesterday.
2 comments:
You should rent some of the 'classic' road movies for inspiration and see if they spark any ideas...
Easy Rider
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Thelma and Louise (ok, maybe not...)
Blues Brothers
...but the law of the open road is to go with the flow, so don't plan all of the fun out of it....
Re the Web 2.0 stuff.
The website could use some 'share' buttons, like "Digg this", "facebook this" etc., like you see on the bottom of some blog articles, or BBC News pages. SeV things are ideal for posting to blogs, particularly any funny content.
Speaking of which, I think it's important to ensure that all content is linkable, which means that everything should be reachable from a specific URL. Some flash sites can't do this; you have to link to the front page, and tell the reader where to go from there. If you've posted a funny video, or something really cool, bloggers need to be able to point their readers right at the thing itself.
As regards your personal usage of networking sites, I think you've got the major ones (facebook and twitter) covered already. MySpace is a disaster area; it allows so much customization that many of the pages are simply unusable; music playing as soon as the page loads, unreadable text on confusing garish backdrops. Bleurgh!
I believe that facebook and twitter fill a useful niche in communication. When you have something to say that you do want to tell people, but it's not necessarily interesting enough to email to them, that's a facebook/twitter update. e.g. "My computer just blew up", "I wish I hadn't eaten that pie", "Ooh, Doctor Who tonight!". You wouldn't dream of sending out a bulk email to everyone telling them every damn thing you are doing and thinking, but a status update is more passive. They just see it, so they know what you're up to. (That doesn't preclude you from posting genuinely interesting updates too, of course. Just that they don't have to be that significant.)
I think also that what you get out of social networking sites depends on what you put into them. If you regularly update yours (just a few seconds every day or so), then people will interact with you more, so you'll get more out of it.
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